Recent work in data integration has shown the importance of statistical information about the coverage and overlap of data sources for efficient query processing. Gathering and s...
: Information integration requires manipulating data and metadata in ways that in general go beyond a single existing transformation formalism. As a result, a complete source-to-ta...
Viewpoint-based conceptual modeling is concerned with the identification of a complete and coherent set of software models that have been developed with the involvement of variou...
We propose a new deformable shape model Active Shape Structural Model (ASSM) for recognition and reconstruction. The main features of ASSM are: (1) It describes variations of shape...
: Changing business requirements such as providing new business services lead to an ongoing need for fast and flexible adaptation of the underlying information systems and infrastr...